A road sign in Death Valley warning of extreme heat Getty Images/iStockphoto
Death Valley in California is among the hottest places on Earth. In the midst of a heatwave baking large parts of the US South and Southwest it may have just set a new record for the hottest midnight ever.
Between 12am and 1am on 17 July, the maintained in Death Valley by the US National Weather Service recorded temperatures of 48.9°C (120°F).
, a meteorologist at Yale Climate Connections, says he doesn’t doubt that this was the hottest midnight…
